A soldier and a Buddhist monk were killed in a bomb blast in Southern Thailand on Saturday. The bomb was planted in a garbage can and detonated by remote control while the monk was collecting donations nearby. The soldier was accompanying the monk for protection.
Also injured in the blast were two soldiers, a monk, and three villagers who were making donations. Police [...]

The poet Anne Waldman has been honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award in this year's American Book Awards. In addition to her many writings and her work as an social activist, Waldman was a founding member, along with Chögyam Trungpa and Allen Ginsberg, of Naropa Insitute's (now Naropa University) Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, which opened in 1974.
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A 2-year-old Tibetan boy born in Nepal has been recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche (1923-2011), according to Tibetan news site Phayul.
The reincarnation, Ngawang Tenzin Choekyi Lodoe Rabsel, was born in Kathmandu on July 25, 2013. The announcement about his recognition was made on July 6th to coincide with His Holiness [...]

Campaign Nonviolence and Upaya Zen Center will mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with programs and demonstrations in Santa Fe and Los Alamos, New Mexico from August 5-9. 130,000 people — mostly civilians — were killed in the 1945 bombings. The programs include talks by Rev. James Lawson, Erica Chenoweth, and Roshi Joan Halifax, [...]

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Is there Buddhism without rebirth? That's the question Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche will discuss in a talk this Sunday, July 19, 1pm-8pm EST. While the event is sold out, the audio will be livestreamed around the world for free.
For more information, visit siddharthasintent.org (details on the livestream to come soon).
Teachings by Dzongsar [...]

Following NASA's historic Pluto flyby yesterday, scientists have already begun ascribing informal names to splotchy geographical features in never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet. Among the new place names is “Meng Po,” the god of forgetfulness from Chinese Buddhist mythology. Meng Po greets souls in the afterlife and gives them a bowl of soup to forget their experience [...]

A new update from Plum Village reports that Thich Nhat Hanh has traveled to San Francisco's UCSF Medical Center from his monastery in France for intensive rehabilitation, following his stroke last fall. The report reiterates the message of Plum Village's last release, that Thay (as he is affectionately known) is recovering remarkably. While he is at least currently unable to [...]

Following the passing of Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche in July 2012, the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, this spring issued a letter received by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche that indicated that Traleg Rinpoche's successor had been born and would be found in Zama Village in Batong, Tibet.
That successor, Traleg Yangse Rinpoche, has now been officially recognized by Thrangu [...]